The Western North Regional Police Command of the Ghana Police Service has arrested a suspect believed to be connected to a violent robbery attack on a mining site at Sefwi Antobia in the Western North Region.
The suspect, identified as Victor Biney, alias Abeiku, who is already on the police wanted list in connection with multiple robbery cases, was arrested on Monday, November 17.
His arrest followed a complaint that seven armed, masked men had attacked miners at a site near Sefwi Antobia, assaulted them with cutlasses, and stolen quantities of gold concentrate and several mobile phones.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the robbers, armed with pump-action and single-barrel guns, stormed the site, subjected the miners to severe beatings, and made away with the gold concentrate and other valuables.
Three of the attackers were reported to be wearing distinctive smocks, with one smock decorated with talismans, while another wore a military shirt.
A search conducted at the suspect’s shrine at Attakrom led to the recovery of a military camouflage shirt, a pair of handcuffs, two cutlasses, a single-barrel gun, several flashlights, seventeen AAA live cartridges, multiple smocks, mercury, particles of gold concentrate, a pump-action gun butt and other items believed to be linked to the robbery.
At the station, the suspect admitted ownership of several of the recovered items.
The victims also identified some of the flashlights, the mercury, the gold concentrate and three of the smocks as those taken during the robbery.
They further confirmed that the military shirt and some of the smocks matched what the attackers wore.
The suspect was put before the Juaboso District Court on Monday and has been remanded into police custody to reappear on Monday, December 8.
The police are on a manhunt to arrest the remaining accomplices currently at large so they can face the full rigours of the law.